Plagiarism to cost students, faculty dearly
Pupils would face cancellation of registration, staff denied increments, barred from publication of papers
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has
come out with draft rules to make it difficult for students, researchers and
the faculty at higher education institutes to plagiarise assignments, projects,
theses, research work and dissertations.
The Draft UGC (Promotion
of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education
Institutions) Regulations stipulate higher education institutes instal software
to ensure papers from students and faculty are free from plagiarism at the time
of submission.
The rules also make it
mandatory for authors to sign an undertaking that their work is original. The
guides or supervisors approving the thesis would have to sign an undertaking
that the work assessed by them was free from plagiarism. Institutes would allow
researchers, faculty and students enrolled under MPhil and PhD programmes
access to software to cross-check their scripts before submitting their thesis
or paper.
“All higher education institutes
shall submit to Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) soft copies of all
MPhil, PhD dissertations and these are carried out in its various departments
after the award of degrees for hosting in the digital repository under the
Shodh Ganga e-repository programme,” the draft rules say. The INFLIBNET Centre
is an autonomous inter-university centre of the UGC under the ministry of human
resource development (MHRD).
These rules will come
into effect after September 30 as the UGC is awaiting feedback from all the
stakeholders. “The intention behind these rules was to improve quality and
standard of education of higher education institutes in the country,” an MHRD
official said.
The move will impact
students in India’s 760 universities, including 43 central and 316 state public
universities and 75 institutes of national importance. There are 38,498
colleges and another 12,276 stand-alone institutions in the country. The UGC
draft rules has proposed punishment for students and faculty if found guilty of
plagiarising original and published content.
For students, the
punishment could range from losing credits to cancellation of their
registration. “If plagiarism is proved on a date later than the date of award
of degree or credit as the case may be, then his/her degree or credit shall be
put in abeyance for a period decided by the Academic Misconduct Panel (AMP) and
Plagiarism Discipline Authority (PDA),” the rules say.
The higher education
institutes would be mandated to set up an AMP, comprising four senior
academicians, including one from outside the institution, and PDA, a
three-member committee headed by the head of institution. The PDA will take
action on the recommendation of AMP. Its decision would be final and binding.
The same authorities
will decide on the action against faculty, staff and researchers if they are
accused of plagiarism. Their punishment ranges from forcing them to withdraw
their manuscripts and denial of increment for two successive years.
They would also be
prohibited from submitting their papers for three years. “They shall not be
allowed to be a supervisor to any undergraduate, postgraduate, Master's, MPhil,
PhD student/scholar for a period of three years,” the rules say.
Source | https://www.pressreader.com/india/business-standard/20170918/282235190831949
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